Digital Playground First to Offer XXX to iPhone Users

LOS ANGELES – Digital Playground announced today that it will bring the first adult content to Apple’s new iPhone, which hits the market on Friday. To prepare for the new product’s release, Digital has launched two websites: one with over 150 free trailers, and another through Adult DVD Empire which allows users to download full-length hardcore scenes. [...]

Epoch Recruits Holly Ruprecht

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Holly Ruprecht, formerly of NakedSword, recently has joined Epoch‘s sales team and will act as affiliate manager. Ruprecht hopes to embellish the third-party billing company with her affiliate savvy and vast knowledge of the gay adult market. I’m really excited and thrilled to bring my background of the gay market and [...]

Industry Leaders Hold Press Conference to Introduce RTA Label

LOS ANGELES — Leading members of the adult entertainment industry joined Executive Director Joan Irvine of ASACP at a press conference held Friday afternoon at the Erotica LA consumer tradeshow to announce the launch of the Restricted to Adults (RTA) labeling system, which includes a simple piece of programming code designed by the Association of [...]

Journalist Passes on Seminar, Babeland Alleges Censorship

LOS ANGELES — Female-friendly adult retailer Babeland announced that Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein, who was set to teach a fellatio instructional seminar next week, backed out abruptly and said his editors didn’t like the idea. He also told the store he would not write his intended corresponding column for the same reasons.Babeland quickly [...]

Stockroom.com Sells The Pussy Foot

LOS ANGELES — Online adult retailer/manufacturer Stockroom.com has added a new foot fetish toy to its extensive catalog of adult products. The SiFeet Pussy Foot was introduced earlier this spring to enthusiastic response from Stockroom customers.“We sell lots of cutting edge, original items, but this one takes the cake for feel, look and inventiveness. It [...]

SuicideGirls Sues Lithium Picnic Photographer Philip Warner

HOUSTON – Philip Warner, formerly a photographer with alt-porn site SuicideGirls who now shoots for LithiumPicnic, is paying the price after being eliminated from the SG site in November 2006 for allegedly operating Apneatic.com, his wife’s photo gallery website. SG ultimately slapped Warner with a $100,000 lawsuit for what the company perceived as a violation [...]

Pure Vanilla Ups the Privacy Ante

NEW YORK – Identity theft in the U.S. has reached a staggering $105 billion annually, affecting one in four Americans. Working to combat this, Pure Vanilla Exchange Inc., a provider of anonymous online payment solutions, recently deployed a new layer of privacy protection on every transaction. The company said it protects consumers’ financial information on [...]

Kink to Launch Its First Full-On Gay Site

SAN FRANCISCO — Online fetish content provider Kink.com is preparing to launch LeatherDaddy.com, its first foray into the gay market, the brainchild of MenInPain.com and TrainingofO.com director James Mogul.Kink’s event coordinator, Cat Rich, told XBIZ that the site will be devoted to featuring the image of raw, animalistic sexuality between men with little fluff in [...]

U.S. House Approves Anti-Spyware Bill

WASHINGTON — Seeking to address an issue that is of great concern to web surfers, merchants and advertising affiliates alike, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved an anti-spyware bill — a bill that critics say is far too broad and will catch far more than spyware in its net.H.R. 964, or the “Securely Protect [...]

Brittaney Starr to Shoot Music Video

LAS VEGAS — Adult star Brittaney Starr is inviting everyone to her first music video shoot. The star of Platinum Blue Productions’ “Airgazmic – The Capture” will film the music video for her new, self-produced single “I Wanna (F*** The DJ)” in Las Vegas at the Empire Ballroom late at night on Thursday.Starr produced the [...]